Word: conducters
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POSTHUMOUSLY PARDONED. HENRY O. FLIPPER, the Army's first black commissioned officer; for an 1882 military conviction for conduct unbecoming an officer; by President Clinton; in Washington...
Well, you could call it business as usual. The sad truth is that in far too many places in America, black life is cheap. As outrageous as the police conduct in the Diallo case seems to have been, it is only a highly publicized example of the slaughter that has made black men an endangered species. Despite overall declines in the homicide rate, murder at the hands of another black man remained the leading cause of death for black males ages 15 to 24 through much...
...underlying causes of the carnage--drugs, poor schooling, high unemployment and the breakdown of the family--are no secret. But there's another factor that gets less attention: the conduct of the police. The Black Panthers may be defunct, but many inner-city residents agree with them that the cops are an occupation army more concerned with keeping minorities in check than with fighting crime. Special squads like the N.Y.P.D.'s street-crime unit, whose members killed Diallo, stop and frisk tens of thousands of people whose only crime is being black. Despite lawsuits by the A.C.L.U., African-American motorists...
...does increase the likelihood that the clothing producers will adhere to appropriate codes of conduct if the public can know," Durkee said...
...universities could add their names to the membership list of a group like the Fair Labor Association, a conglomerate of human rights, labor and religious organizations and some apparel and footwear companies formed last year and supported by the White House. The association enforces a code of conduct for clothing manufacturers to prevent the use of sweatshop labor...